Professional Support for Voluntary Groups including financial & legal support
and finding highly skilled volunteers – last updated October 2010
Organisation
FINANCIAL
SUPPORT
About the organisation
A Social Enterprise specialising in Bookkeeping
and Charity Accounting with Bookkeeping,
Charity Accounting and Payroll Services
including:
Work Placement/On-the-job training for
Bookkeeping/Accounting students.
- QuickBooks Bookkeeping/Payroll Services.
- Sage Bookkeeping/Payroll Services.
- Providing Freelance Bookkeepers to work in
your company/charity/voluntary group.
- Manual Bookkeeping using Excel
Spreadsheet.
- Independent Examination of Charity
Accounts.
- Supervision of your in-house
Bookkeeping/Finance staff.
- Setting up a Bookkeeping Business for
students interested in freelancing as
Bookkeepers.
Web link
http://primandp
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The Local
Accountancy
Project
The Local Accountancy Project is currently a
partner of ASSET (a consortium of four
organizations that operates across four
Boroughs (Bexley, Greenwhich, Lewisham, and
Southwark) to provide financial management
support and training to voluntary and faith
groups. The direct services provided by LAP
allow mainly small and disadvantaged groups to
have access to professional services at a rate
substantially cheaper than that provided by
private accountancy firms and individuals. We
can answer most of your financial questions and
help you control your finances more effectively
and efficiently.
www.localacco
untancyproject.
org.uk/aboutus
LEGAL
SUPPORT
Southwark
Advice
Centres
Southwark Advice Centres are places where
you can get advice, information and guidance
on your legal rights, entitlements and
responsibilities by phone or face to face. Some
are generalist centres, providing advice and
information on issues such as welfare benefits,
housing, employment, consumer rights, health,
money and debt issues; others are specialist
services that provide advice on just one issue
such as immigration and nationality.
www.southwar
k.gov.uk/info/2
00020/advice_
services/636/a
dvice_centres
Prim & Proper
Services
Limited
LawWorks
LawWorks
Choices
Community
Legal Advice
London
Voluntary
Service
Council
(LVSC)
LawWorks is a charity which aims to provide
free legal help to individuals and community
groups who cannot afford to pay for it and who
are unable to access legal aid. In the last year
LawWorks helped provide free legal advice to
over 40,000 people and around 350 voluntary
sector organisations. We work with just under
100 member law firms and teams of in-house
counsel, as well as mediators, law students and
solicitors who have been made redundant (see
our Choices project), involving them all in pro
bono work. LawWorks is the operating name of
the Solicitors Pro Bono Group. General Contact
Details
LawWorks
National Pro Bono Centre
48 Chancery Lane
London WC2A 1JF
Switchboard: 020 7092 3940
E-mail: enquiries@lawworks.org.uk
LawWorks in association with Roll On Friday
have set up LawWorks Choices, a new project
for unemployed lawyers. It gives them the
chance to give pro bono advice to individuals
and not for profit groups, to carry on practising
and massively to improve their employment
prospects.
This website offers free, confidential and
independent legal advice for residents of
England and Wales.
www.lawworks.
org.uk
http://lawworks
choices.org.uk
www.communit
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a charity. How charities are required to operate,
including rules on fund-raising activities.
LVSC's offer support with:
http://www.lvsc.
- Starting an organisation
org.uk/Templat
- Help with running your organisation
es/information.
- Funding your organisation
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- Commissioning and Procurement
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- Employment law and HR advice from
PEACe
- Support for advisors
- Support for information workers
- Advice services
- Professional help
PEACe, LVSC's employment law and HR advice
service has many useful documents available
written especially for the voluntary and
community sector.
The links below will take you to the correct page
for some of the key guides, model policies,
procedures and contracts available:
- Recruitment
- Employing staff
- Disciplinary and grievance
- Equality and diversity
- Health and safety
- Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable
Adults
- Developing a safeguarding policy for
children and vulnerable adults
- Checklist for child protection policies
- CRB checklist
National
Council for
Voluntary
Organisations
(NCVO)
NCVO produces publications to support people
working in voluntary and community
organisations
If you know what publication you're looking for
use the A-Z list, or search by topic below:
-
HIGHLY
SKILLED
VOLUNTEERS
Reach
Volunteering
http://www.ncv
ovol.org.uk/publi
cations
Campaigning
Funding and finance
HR and employment
Information and communication
technology (ICT)
Governance and leadership Marketing and
communications
Partnership working and collaboration
Policy
Research and analysis
Strategy and planning
We enable organisations to find skilled
volunteers who can really make a difference.
We have over 2,000 registered volunteers with
experience in management, IT, marketing,
accountancy, project management, HR, finance
and many other areas. Most have at least three
years' experience and they are spread
throughout the UK.
www.reachskill
s.org.uk/fororganisations